Beauty and The Beast Overture

[karatekid1]

Posted: 8/29/06 at 11:42pm

Does anyone know if Beauty and the Beast has an actual overture that is not the prologue? If So what does it sound like, and is there anywhere that i can hear it on the net or by pm please?
thanx

[ontheT]

Posted: 8/29/06 at 11:56pm

When my theatre company did the show, we had an overature that started right after the prologue and flowed into the beginning notes of "Belle." It was a standard overature, nothing surprising or special. From what i remember- it was very powerful at the beginning, and that's all i really remember about it.

[inlovewithjerryherman]

Posted: 8/30/06 at 12:05am

i just worked backstage on Beauty...ummm....i think there is a short overture before the prologue...it's one of my least favorites...that's all i really remember about it.

[karatekid1]

Posted: 8/30/06 at 12:11am

is there anywhere to hear it besides the actual show?

[Justin D]

Posted: 8/30/06 at 8:27am

Beauty and Aida have "mini" overtures before you get to what you hear on the CD, and they both suck. From what I remember, I couldnt even tell what song in B&tb they were using in the overture. For a moment i thought it was just the orchestra warming up

[mejusthavingfun]

Posted: 8/30/06 at 10:24am

I LOVE the Aida overture on the concept CD.

[StageManager2]

Posted: 8/30/06 at 10:33am

Wow. mejusthavingfun actually LIKES something. Or should I say LOVES?

[WickedGeek28]

Posted: 8/30/06 at 10:41am

Hairspray also has a little musical opening before the CD starts.

[mejusthavingfun]

Posted: 8/30/06 at 10:43am

Well I wont go into how much I don't love the show...

[LumBabsFan]

Posted: 8/30/06 at 10:44am

B&B's overture is a short combo of the Transformation high point (after he completely human) and the title song. So yeah, they have one, just not on the CD. It's in the hidden songs vault along with "Change in Me."

[AshleyBrownFan123]

Posted: 8/30/06 at 11:57am

Also, I saw a production of Aida with a 3 min. overture.

Does Lion King have an overture?

P. S. Hairspray's overture is soooo cool. It's like it transports us from a theatre to Baltimore.

[Justin D]

Posted: 8/30/06 at 12:10pm

Lion Kind doesnt have one, It's left up to whoever is playing Rafiki to hit the opening note perfectly with no accompaniment, otherwise the whole opening song is out off.

[RentBoy86]

Posted: 8/30/06 at 3:20pm

The Hairspray overture is really quick. I don't really get "Baltimore" from it. Isn't it just "I can hear the bells"?

As for B&B - I wish they would have made a new recording with Ashley Brown, I love the song, "A Change In Me."

[karatekid1]

Posted: 8/31/06 at 2:40am

Is There anywhere 2 hear it?

[LumBabsFan]

Posted: 8/31/06 at 9:48am

There absolutely are people there to hear it. =)

[adamgreer]

Posted: 8/31/06 at 12:35pm

You can hear Ashley Brown sing it on the "On the Record" cast recording. They also gave away an "Ashley Brown Sampler" CD at the theater when she was in it. If you bought a souvenir program, you got it for free. It had her singing A Change in Me, Reflection, and Part of Your World.

[HeyMrMusic]

Posted: 8/31/06 at 1:47pm

Yeah, we totally cut the Overture when I played in the pit for a production of Aida. I love overtures, but Aida's is pointless.

~Steven

[DisneyLover]

Posted: 4/20/08 at 1:03pm

First song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulsLJo6cArc
Updated On: 4/20/08 at 01:03 PM

[LePetiteFromage]

Posted: 4/20/08 at 1:08pm

Updated On: 5/8/09 at 01:08 PM

[SpellingBeeFan4Ever]

Posted: 4/20/08 at 1:12pm

A first time poster use the forbidden search? BRAVO!

Updated On: 4/20/08 at 01:12 PM

[DisneyLover]

Posted: 5/31/08 at 5:17pm

I really don't know i loved the show and just decided to post that i believe i found this by doing a google serch.

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 5/31/08 at 5:26pm

The Beauty and the Beast and Aida overtures are actually two of my very favorite overtures and it sucks that they chose not to record them. Especially since both had enough available space left on the disc to do so.